Fire Sprinkler Systems – Inspection and Monitoring
Will your fire sprinklers work when you need them most? Fire Sprinklers are designed and fabricated to save lives, last the life of the building, and if properly installed, maintained, and inspected, they will. A properly inspected fire sprinkler system dramatically increases its reliability. In addition to performing the required inspection and maintenance; we can extend the life of the system, improve its reliability and reduce the overall cost of maintenance. Inspection and maintenance of sprinklers are required on a monthly, quarterly, semiannual, annual, and five-year basis.
Installation of Fire
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Important Sprinkler Facts
Each sprinkler discharges individually. All sprinklers do not diffuse at once. One sprinkler controls most fires. Sprinkler heads are heat activated. Smoke does not activate the sprinkler head.
Fire sprinklers are the most reliable fire protection system known. They report a 99.76% success rate in communities where all fires are reported. Residential systems are installed with flow switches that sound the alarm when the system is flowing, signaling others to call the fire department. Residential & Commercial systems are designed to save lives but they also reduce the incidence of property loss by 85%.
The United States has a very high incidence of fire, and the worse per capita fire death record in the industrialized world. Our fire departments here in the United States are the best in the World at extinguishing fires, but the problem is response time. To save most lives, five minutes is the crucial time period, and most alarms are received too late for the fire fighters to have a chance to save the lives of the occupants. Fire sprinklers can never replace the courageous fire fighter but they can enhance their arsenal of defense.